You never quite know what will catch Internet fire. In the case of Cory Williams—a man who captures life in Alaska with his YouTube videos as DudeLikeHELLA—it was a fortuitous trip to a local lake, a skip of the rock and a priceless reaction the Internet doesn’t seem to be tiring of anytime soon.

For the “sound” everyone is going mad over, skip to about three minutes and 40 seconds into the video. That’s when you get what Williams refers to as the “coolest sound ever.”

His Facebook page offers a bit more on the personality on the camera: “My name is Cory Williams, better known as ‘Mr. Safety.’ I'm an actor, stuntman, writer and director who has worked in pretty much every form of entertainment except porn (if you don't count that time I ran across San Francisco naked).”

For the moment, Williams is chronicling life in and around Alaska’s Eagle River, showing off some of the less heralded sights, including a yard with a massive boat. A recent video even captured the misadventures aboard a beer train, which immediately sounds like fun.

The best part of the rock-skipping video is Williams and his partner in auditory adventures decided to go to Edmonds Lake on a whim, leaving behind what we assume was a less revelatory Mirror Lake.

Williams opines on his chance encounter: “Just when you think you’ve seen some of the coolest stuff in Alaska, you see things like that. That is not on the tourism guides.”

Now for safety’s sake, we recommend you adhere to guide recommendations and tips from locals. However, and this is something we travelers know all too well, some of the best moments come when you step ever so softly from the designated path, finding something remarkable and truly unexpected.

And that's the biggest take away from a ping sound the Internet is going mad over: get out an experience all the world has to offer, even the stuff that only sounds ridiculous.

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